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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Propaganda Family Tree p2
A spread from the book RISE, the “Propaganda Family Tree,” depicting the ways that propaganda images have persisted over the decades, and been repurposed for subsequent conflicts.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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Propaganda Family Tree
A spread from the book RISE, the “Propaganda Family Tree,” depicting the ways that propaganda images have persisted over the decades, and been repurposed for subsequent conflicts.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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“The Cost Of Being an ‘Interchangeable Asian’”
Brian X. Chen’s New York Times article exploring the phenomenon often referred to, humorously, as “all look same.”
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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Racial Homogeneity of Friendship Networks
While racial homogeneity in friendship networks has decreased from 2013 – 2022, the average non-Asian American does not have a single AAPI friend within their core social networks. (Source: PRRI 2022 Social Networks Survey (Public Religion Research Institute))
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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Asian American Population Distribution in the US
Nearly half (45 percent) of Asian Americans live in the western United States, with 30 percent in California alone. (Source: Pew Research Center Analysis of 2017-2019 American Community Survey (IPUMS))
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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Percent of US Population With Passports
The percentage of Americans with passports has increased from thirty percent in 2008 to fifty-one percent in 2024 totalling over 171 million valid passports in circulation. (Source: US Department of State)
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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The Crimson Kimono Poster
The theatrical poster for Samuel Fuller’s The Crimson Kimono (1959). As the civil rights movement was budding, pop culture reflected the reality of interracial relationships in a way that was broadly accessible and, for a growing number of people, acceptable.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 1
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LA Race Parxis Network
The LA Race Praxis Network poses at the Mother of Humanity statue at the Watts Labor and Community Center in Los Angeles, 2024. The network is a group that has been doing healing and service together since the killing of George Floyd and anti-Asian hate incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sa I Gu: Los Angeles, 1992, Module 5
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Koreatown Solidarity
A man comforts a distraught store owner after her store is destroyed, one of the many displays of compassion and comfort among residents during the civil unrest.
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Sa I Gu: Los Angeles, 1992, Module 5
